About 70 hotel guests in St. Petersburg seek medical help over food poisoning

August 16, 2015, 21:27 UTC+3ST. PETERSBURGFifty-six of them are Chinese citizens

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ST. PETERSBURG, August 16. /TASS/. About 70 guests of the Polyustrovo Hotel in St. Petersburg have sought medical assistance over food poisoning, a spokesman for the local administration told TASS on Sunday.

"About 70 people, including six children, sought medical assistance. Fifty-six of them are Chinese citizens," the spokesman said, adding that 12 adults (two Russians and ten Chinese nationals) and three children, of whom two are Chinese, were taken to hospital.